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Massachusetts artist tapped for UT Cesar Chavez sculpture
Sculptor Pablo Eduardo of Gloucester, Mass., has been selected by the University of Texas to create a campus statue of civil rights leader Cesar Chavez.
Eduardo was choosen by the university’s Cesar Chavez Statue Committee following a nationwide search during the past year. The 8-foot figurative bronze statue will be erected on the university’s busy West Mall and is scheduled to be unveiled April 6, 2007.
Granted, the kind of traditional bronze work such as Eduardo makes, won’t really surprise us artistically. But it will be the first statue of a Hispanic person on the UT campus. Former UT president Larry Faulkner made it a priority to deal with the awful symbolism of the historic statues of confederate war heroes that dot the Forty Acres. Now Chavez will join Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Barbara Jordan in bronze memoriam.
Here’s a sample of Eduardo’s work.
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